VSW seeks to directly engage filmmakers and curators of color, increase the number of screenings offered each season, and to cultivate a more economically, racially and generationally diverse community within our audience. To further these goals VSW is introducing a new “Community Curator” program. Beginning in 2018 VSW will invite community leaders within Rochester to curate film screenings using VSW’s collection of over 9,000 film and video titles, and assist with marketing and projecting the program in our auditorium screening room. During the first year of the program we will invite curators to participate; in following years we will host an open call for participants.